The English Garden

Curiouser & Curiouser

The heart of summer can feel like the party you’ve been arranging all year. The planning, the thinking and the preparation are all done, and the main event is in full swing. With luck, most of my time will now be spent harvesting, preserving and eating – enjoying whatever degree of success the weather and my judgment has given.

It can only be coincidence, but many of the plants that I’m harvesting and enjoying during the summer either come from Asia or are wildly

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